Sehar is an Indian Hindi language action crime drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik. Based on real-life incidents and individuals, the film depicts organized crime in the late '90s in Uttar Pradesh and how the State Police worked to tackle it. It shows the turbulent journey of a newly appointed 31-year old SSP of Lucknow Ajay Kumar instrumental in bringing together a group of committed police officers under the aegis of Special Task Force (STF).
At the tender age of 8, Ajay Kumar is traumatized with the death of his army officer dad, who kills himself with his service revolver as he was being accused of being a deserter, leaving a widowed Prabha to bring up Ajay on her own. She inspires and motivates him to do the right thing. Ajay grows up, studies, and successfully becomes an IPS officer with the title of SSP. Due to his honesty; he gets transferred to various states in India. At this new posting in (Lucknow) Uttar Pradesh, he comes to terms with criminal don and ruthless killer Gajraj Singh. Ajay would like a set up a Special Task Force to deal with Gajraj; however, he does run into problems as Gajraj is politically well-connected. Ajay tries to crack down on the UP mafia, but more often than not is betrayed by information-leaking local police officials.
After murder of Mr. Hari Prasad Chaursia, who is a close friend of the state Chief Minister's, and kidnap of son of H.P. Chaursia by Gajraj, the way was paved for the formation of the STF, consisting of about 8 honest and dedicated men (consisting Saiyad, Solanki, Baidyanath, Mishra, Yadav, Makbul). The group was successful in its first operation and the child was rescued.
The force, bequeathed with a single agenda, succeeds in challenging the might of organized crime in Uttar Pradesh, and in the process, what unfolds is the ever-changing dynamics of Uttar Pradesh's Siyaasat: railway contracts, ISI involvement, politician-Mafia-police-builder nexus, pro-activism of criminal gangs, sophisticated